{"id":95,"date":"2024-07-01T08:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T08:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgiresearch.com\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:03:32","slug":"expertise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sgiresearch.com\/?page_id=95","title":{"rendered":"Expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr Liam O&#8217;Shea has authored numerous policy reports and academic publications on security sector reform, policing, and anti-corruption, as well as other security and geopolitical issues. He also has extensive experience conducting internal evaluations and producing analysis for governments and international organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reports \/ Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socace-research.org.uk\/projects\/security-sector-reform-to-counter-organised-crime\"><em>Addressing Police and Military Involvement in Serious and Organised Crime<\/em><\/a> \u2013 Serious Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme Report (SOC-ACE, FCDO-funded research programme) (12.2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalinitiative.net\/analysis\/high-level-corruption-and-state-capture-in-the-south-caucasus\/\">Shadow States: High-level Corruption and State Capture in the South Caucasus<\/a><\/em> \u2013 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (08.2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rusi.org\/explore-our-research\/publications\/whitehall-reports\/crime-terror-and-insecurity-mozambique\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rusi.org\/explore-our-research\/publications\/whitehall-reports\/crime-terror-and-insecurity-mozambique\">Crime, Terror and Insecurity in Mozambique<\/a><\/em> \u2013 RUSI Report, with C. Haenlein, J. de Deus Pereira and M. Jones (05.2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/intelwatch.org.za\/2025\/04\/07\/russian-security-assistance-in-africa-soviet-in-style-extractive-in-substance-destabilising-in-impact\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/intelwatch.org.za\/2025\/04\/07\/russian-security-assistance-in-africa-soviet-in-style-extractive-in-substance-destabilising-in-impact\/\">Russian Security Assistance in Africa<\/a><\/em> \u2013 IntelWatch (04.2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rusi.org\/explore-our-research\/publications\/commentary\/israel-and-wests-future-reputational-problem\"><em>Israel and the West\u2019s Future Reputational Problem<\/em><\/a> \u2013 RUSI Commentary (01.2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socace-research.org.uk\/publications\/socace-rp21-third-country-jurisdictions-sea\"><em>Illuminating the Role of Third-Country Jurisdictions in Sanctions Evasion and Avoidance<\/em><\/a> \u2013 SOC-ACE Report (10.2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rusi.org\/explore-our-research\/publications\/commentary\/what-ukraine-must-do-fight-corruption-lessons-around-world\"><em>What Ukraine Must Do to Fight Corruption: Lessons from Around the World<\/em><\/a> \u2013 RUSI Commentary (04.2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rusi.org\/explore-our-research\/publications\/commentary\/countering-misogyny-and-building-trust-uk-policing\"><em>Countering Misogyny and Building Trust in UK Policing<\/em><\/a> \u2013 RUSI Commentary, with A. Hack (03.2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rusi.org\/explore-our-research\/publications\/commentary\/can-russia-police-its-protests-and-its-elites\"><em>Can Russia Police Its Protests \u2013 and Its Elites?<\/em><\/a> \u2013 RUSI Commentary (11.2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cebcp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TC22-Fall2022.pdf\"><em>The $230 billion question: Why is so much being spent on International Police Assistance, with so little evidence?<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cebcp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TC22-Fall2022.pdf\"> <\/a>\u2013 <em>Transitional Criminology<\/em> (10.2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/international-affairs-blog\/what-does-russia-offer-ukraine-and-its-neighbours-13b2f7de9dcd\"><em>What does Russia Offer Ukraine and Its Neighbours?<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/international-affairs-blog\/what-does-russia-offer-ukraine-and-its-neighbours-13b2f7de9dcd\"> <\/a>\u2013 International Affairs (Chatham House) Blog (02.2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/international-affairs-blog\/nigerian-police-reform-5-key-measures-and-why-civil-society-is-key-to-achieving-them-c8bcb6e6f457\"><em>Nigerian Police Reform: 5 Key Measures and Why Civil Society is Key to Achieving Them<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/international-affairs-blog\/nigerian-police-reform-5-key-measures-and-why-civil-society-is-key-to-achieving-them-c8bcb6e6f457\"> <\/a>\u2013 International Affairs (Chatham House) Blog (11.2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (UK) \u2013<\/em> <em>Guidance for Security and Justice Programmes<\/em> (2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10439463.2022.2106983\"><em>Why Democratic Police Reform Mostly Fails and Sometimes Succeeds: Police Reform and Low State Capacity,<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10439463.2022.2106983\"><em> <\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10439463.2022.2106983\"><em>Authoritarianism and Neo<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10439463.2022.2106983\"><em>&#8211;<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10439463.2022.2106983\"><em>Patrimonial Politics (in the Former Soviet Union)<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10439463.2022.2106983\"> <\/a>\u2013 <strong>Policing &amp; Society<\/strong> (2023), 33 (3)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14678802.2022.2121916\"><em>Democratic Police Reform, Security Sector Reform, Anti<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14678802.2022.2121916\"><em>&#8211;<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14678802.2022.2121916\"><em>Corruption<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14678802.2022.2121916\"><em> <\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14678802.2022.2121916\"><em>and Spoilers: Lessons from Georgia<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14678802.2022.2121916\"> <\/a>\u2013 <strong>Conflict, Security and Development<\/strong> (2022), 22 (4)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1057\/9781137483072_13\">\u201c<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1057\/9781137483072_13\">Informal Economic Practices Within the Kyrgyz Police (Militsiya)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1057\/9781137483072_13\">\u201d<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1057\/9781137483072_13\"> <\/a>\u2013 In, <strong><em>The Persistence of Informal Economic Practices in Post-Socialist Societies<\/em><\/strong>, Ed. J. Morris and A. Polese (2015), London: Palgrave Macmillan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/pipss\/3964\"><em>Why Does Police Reform Appear to Have Been More Successful in Georgia than in Kyrgyzstan or Russia?<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/pipss\/3964\"> \u2013<\/a> <strong>The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies<\/strong> (Winter 2012), Issue 13, with K. Kakachia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/policing\/article-abstract\/4\/1\/38\/1500771\"><em>Improving the UK\u2019s Contribution to International Policing<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/policing\/article-abstract\/4\/1\/38\/1500771\"> <\/a>\u2013 <strong>Policing<\/strong> (2010), 4 (1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Liam O&#8217;Shea has authored numerous policy reports and academic publications on security sector reform, policing, and anti-corruption, as well as other security and geopolitical issues. He also has extensive experience conducting internal evaluations and producing analysis for governments and international organisations. 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